Available eBooks

Dramatically improve your school by merging the High Reliability Schools (HRS) model and the PLC at Work^® process. Ensure continuous quality improvement through strong leadership and culture building.

With the support of this comprehensive guide, you will discover how to transform teaching and learning with personalized competency-based education. The resource’s research-based instructional strategies will prepare educators for learner-centered teaching in modern learning environments.

Discover a clear path for creating and utilizing high-quality proficiency scales. Through this practical handbook, you will gain access to a comprehensive toolkit of strategies, methods, and examples for a variety of content areas and grade levels.

This practical handbook will guide you through implementing Dr. Robert J. Marzano’s The New Art and Science of Teaching framework to improve student learning outcomes and academic achievement. With this guide, you will better understand and utilize the research-based instructional strategies and teaching methods of the Marzano framework in your classroom, school, or district.

Designed specifically for K–12 teachers, this guide provides a sequential approach to implementing standards-based education in the classroom. Transition to more effective instructional strategies and use standards-based grading and assessment methods to better measure student learning.

Learn how and why High Reliability Schools use interdependent systems of operation and the PLC at Work^® process to establish and maintain school effectiveness.

Explore research-based steps and strategies you can use to increase the effectiveness of collaborative teams and enhance professional learning communities.

Align instruction and assessment with the new science standards, and create proficiency scales to plan all types of lessons.

Usher in the new era of school reform. The authors help you transform your schools into organizations that take proactive steps to prevent failure and ensure student success. Using a research-based five-level hierarchy along with leading and lagging indicators, you'll learn to assess, monitor, and confirm the effectiveness of your schools. Each chapter includes what actions should be taken at each level.

Discover how to weave an in-depth understanding of the Common Core into successful classroom practice with this two-part resource. You'll learn how to power the standards with guided assessment and measure student progress in a way that accurately reflects learning. Included are hundreds of ready-to-use, research-based proficiency scales for both English language arts and mathematics.